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Lurøyane

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Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen
SOAPSTONE FROM LURØYANE ...

Stall

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen
The Bergen Arcs have an unusually sharp boundary to the bedrock in the east. Geologists think that this was caused by movements in the earth's crust d...

Litlandsvatnet

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen Nils Georg Brekke
Large quantities of nickel ore have been mined from Litlandsvatnet, between Lonevågen and Hosanger. The discovery was made in 1875. During the period ...

Bergsdalen

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen
The mountains of western Norway are lovely to wander in. In Cambro-Silurian time it was the mountain itself that wandered. The mountain, or more corre...

Skreien

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen
VAKSDALSTEIN TO BERGEN ...

Mjølfjell

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth Haakon Fossen
KETTLE HOLE LANDSCAPE AND TOXIC SOIL BY MJØLFJELL...

Nordheim

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen
"And here these endless kingdoms and these toils for a rich working life far and wide have lain and slept for a hundred thousand years! Right up until...

Hamlagrø

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen Bjørn Moe
The type of underlying rock can be decisive for how many different types of plants are found in an area. In the area around Hamlagrø-lake the diversit...

Gullbotnen

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen Bjørn Moe
A barren belt where almost nothing grows, runs through the forest on the east slope of Gullbotnen. But, along the west side of the main road there is ...

Kvernes

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen Bjørn Moe Idar Restad
Håkons Hall, Domkirken Church, Bergen Børs Stock Exchange, Permanenten and other well known buildings in Bergen are decorated with soapstone from Øvre...

Frøland - Liarostunnel

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen

Ask - jordbær

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Inge Aarseth Haakon Fossen
Strawberry-growing on Askøy flourished in the beginning of the last century. When gardener Samson Eik took in the type "Seierherren" from Rosendal in ...

Hanøy

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen
At Kong Olav V's Place in Bergen, one finds stone from Hanøy. Together with Sima-granite from Eid Fjord, it decorates the city floor around "The Blue ...

Golta - Gneiss

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen Inge Aarseth
Over thousands of years, autumn storms and strong land-driving winds have cleaned the bare rocks of Golta. The waves can beat far in over land and mak...

Spildepollen

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen
The oceanic crust of the North Sea was subjected to a lot of stretching both in Permian and Triassic times, and later in the Jurassic. This stretching...

Vatlestraumen

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen
There are coal bits hidden in the sand under Vatlestraumen. These remains from a geological layer from the Jurassic Period were discovered when the un...

Ågotnes - crystals

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen
Road cuts and blast areas are a joy to rock collectors, even if the disturbance to nature is ever so disfiguring. These are the best kinds of places t...

Turøyvegen

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen
The earthquake was caused by movements along fault zones in the bedrock where the blocks of rock chafed against each other. In Devonian time, there we...

Toftøyna

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen
FOLDS: NATURE'S ART ...

Eldsfjellet

Bedrock
Published: 06.02.2024
Author: Haakon Fossen Håkon Austrheim
The eclogites in western Norway were formed when Precambrian basement rocks were squeezed and pressed down under great pressure deep under the Caledon...